{"id":7258,"date":"2014-08-27T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/sharepoint-farm-admin-cannot-add-tenant-level-app\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:55:30","slug":"sharepoint-farm-admin-cannot-add-tenant-level-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/sharepoint-farm-admin-cannot-add-tenant-level-app\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Farm Admin Cannot Add Tenant Level App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We ran into an issue today where a Farm Administrator could not add an app to a SharePoint site.&#160; When visiting the page to add the app it said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, only tenant administrators can add or give access to this app.&#160; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Farm Administrator is, by definition, a tenant administrator so this was a bit odd.&#160; Jeff Burt found a random post in a forum (sorry I do not have the link) where someone said that adding the user to the local administrators group on the SharePoint server itself made this issue go away &#8211; and it totally does.&#160; Not an ideal solution, but it is a solution nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ran into an issue today where a Farm Administrator could not add an app to a SharePoint site.&#160; When visiting the page to add the app it said: Sorry, only tenant administrators can add or give access to this app.&#160; A Farm Administrator is, by definition, a tenant administrator so this was a bit&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42411,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions\/42411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}